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This is the story of First Lieutenant at Sea Rudolf Walther. Born on 30 June 1922 in Dohna, Saxony, he joined the Kriegsmarine on 1 October 1940 as a naval officer candidate. He first had to undergo his basic training there, followed by practical shipboard training on the destroyer Z 24 and as an ensign at sea on U 87. With U 87, he took part in two enemy cruises under Captain Lieutenant Joachim Berger, which took him from the North Atlantic to the Newfoundland Bank and Nova Scotia.
From April 1942, the actual watch officer courses began for Rudolf Walther at the various naval schools, alternating with practical shipboard training. Commanded as supernumerary officer of the watch on U 231, he once again took part in all exercises and manoeuvres of the AGRU front with this submarine. Finally he was commanded as I. Officer of the Watch on U 256, one of the few submarines which had been converted into an anti-aircraft submarine and which was under the command of Werner Brauel. On this boat, he experienced the hell of the Battle of the Atlantic in 1943 and 1944. The German submarines had long since gone from being the hunter to the hunted. It was above all the skills of Wilhelm Brauel, who was awarded the German Cross in Gold, that led U 256 back to the base at Brest in France again and again. With the beginning of the invasion on 6 June 1944, U 256 was also at the enemy, but was so damaged by bomb hits that it had to return to base. The crew of U 256 took over U 92 in Brest and Rudolf Walther was again on board as first officer of the watch. On U 92 he experienced an enemy trip in the English Channel and the subsequent transfer of the boat to Norway. Back in Germany, Rudolf Walther had to say goodbye to the men with whom he had shared the hell of the North Atlantic for one and a half years. In January 1945, a commanders' course followed in Danzig and command as a supernumerary trainee commander on U 3011, a Type XXI boat, probably the most modern submarine in the world at that time.
From April 1942, the actual watch officer courses began for Rudolf Walther at the various naval schools, alternating with practical shipboard training. Commanded as supernumerary officer of the watch on U 231, he once again took part in all exercises and manoeuvres of the AGRU front with this submarine. Finally he was commanded as I. Officer of the Watch on U 256, one of the few submarines which had been converted into an anti-aircraft submarine and which was under the command of Werner Brauel. On this boat, he experienced the hell of the Battle of the Atlantic in 1943 and 1944. The German submarines had long since gone from being the hunter to the hunted. It was above all the skills of Wilhelm Brauel, who was awarded the German Cross in Gold, that led U 256 back to the base at Brest in France again and again. With the beginning of the invasion on 6 June 1944, U 256 was also at the enemy, but was so damaged by bomb hits that it had to return to base. The crew of U 256 took over U 92 in Brest and Rudolf Walther was again on board as first officer of the watch. On U 92 he experienced an enemy trip in the English Channel and the subsequent transfer of the boat to Norway. Back in Germany, Rudolf Walther had to say goodbye to the men with whom he had shared the hell of the North Atlantic for one and a half years. In January 1945, a commanders' course followed in Danzig and command as a supernumerary trainee commander on U 3011, a Type XXI boat, probably the most modern submarine in the world at that time.
- Group
- Books (first-hand)
- Author
- Röll, H.-J./Wende, T.
- Title
- In der Hölle der Atlantikschlacht. Die Feindfahrten des Wachoffiziers Rudi Walthe
- Details
- 4th edition (2023). 289 ill. 368 pp.
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